Voltimas stood slowly, smiling.

"The battle is won."

Turning, he caught a glance of Arai standing in the corner. Thinking to himself, he called her over to him.

"Tell me, my dear, how long have you been standing there?"

The light danced mischieviously in her eyes as Arai stepped out of the shadows, her soft chuckle echoing lightly in the meditation chamber. She moved slolwy, sultry, walking behind Voltimas and letting her hand trail across his shoulder as she circled him before coming to stand before him.

" A while now," delicate hands slid down his chest, smoothing out the fabric of his robes. " I enjoy watching you, feeling the flow of the Darkside as you delve deeper into it."

Arai drooped her eyeslids, looking up at Voltimas through her eyelashes, and allowed a shy, playful smile to fill her lips. " Do you mind?"

Voltimas watched as Arai moved about him. He looked her up and down as well.

"You are one of a select few that I do not kill instantly for even entering this room, so no.. I do not mind. You are free to be near me as often as it suits you.

As for my delving into the Darkness. That is no longer true. No longer do I merely use the Dark Side of the Force. Now I AM the Dark Side of the Force."

Her hands still rested lightly on his chest, and a sly glint entered her eyes. Arai stepped in closer to Voltimas, rising to the tips of her toes as her body pressed up against his, her lips hovering a hairs breath away from his. " And I do like being near you..."

She giggled playfully, turning away from Voltimas, and once again came to stand next to the wall. Her back leaned against the cool durasteel and one foot lifted to rest on the wall, her silkly smooth leg protruding from the slit of the sleek gown. " So tell me something, Mr. Darkside of the Force. Now that the battle here is done, what next? What big schemes do you have to show the galaxy the man Lord Voltimas has become?"

Voltimas allowed a grin to cross his lips.

"Well, my dear, I do suppose you will have to wait and find out for yourself. Think of it as.. a reason to stick around. However, I will show you one thing."

Turning to the wall behind him, he pressed a transmitter and the wall slowly opened. Behind the durasteel plating was a sight to behold, indeed. The full armored uniform of the one and only, Darth Vader.

"Perhaps this will allow me to better convey myself to others. Perhaps it will give me the edge I need."

Another grin danced on his lips as he thought of the faces of those who would see this symbol of death and Imperial power. Fools, all of them, to believe that Vader would ever truly be dead.

Eyes wide, Arai stared at the uniform with mouth agape. It pulled at her, drawing her away from her spot on the opposite wall and toward the undeniably impressive sight. As she passed Voltimas she turned a wolfish grin to him and stood in front of him with her eyes once again on the uniform.

" This, will definately make more than a few people squirm. But everyone knows that Vader is dead and gone, is trying to impersonate him going to give you that edge?"

She glanced at him over her shoulder, that same feral grin still on her lips and now shining in her eyes. " Though I have to admit, I'd like the idea of helping you into that suit.. and out of it."

"You do not seem to understand, my dear. I AM Anakin Skywalker, I AM Lord Vader. I am not impersonating him. I AM him.

I was created out of what he was. I am imbued with many of his memories. I am also completely, and without a doubt, Anakin Skywalker. Even his own daughter can sense it from me. Any who have had the power to sense him in the past and are able to sense me now will also feel the same. I am Lord Vader.

I do have one thing he did not have, however. I have a choice. I am not led by anyone out of ignorance or fear to the Dark Side. I chose it freely and embrace it fully. I will never be as he was, undecided. I am darkness incarnate. I am Sith."

Now that was not something one heard every day. Arai turned fully to face Voltimas, looking him up and down with an eyebrow raised questioningly. In the few seconds her eyes studied him, she opened herself to the flow of the Darkside eminating from him. It was stong, intense, and either Voltimus had the power to back up his delusions or he was infact the infamous Lord Vader reborn.

" Lord Vader..." she purred the words, looking back at the armored suit. " Let's say I believe you, and that you are in fact Anakin Skywalker, so what?" Her head snapped back to look at him again, a soft scowl on her face. " Vader was flawed, able to be drawn from the Darkside by his son. What's to say that you do not have that same flaw, that last shred of the Light hidden in the shroud of darkness just waiting to be manipulated?"

"I have no weakness'. There is no shred of goodness left. I am wholy and completely Darkness."

With that, the course was set for their next stop..

.. the planet Vjun.